The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-03-17

secretary or the Interior IN the case of
| Leander Scott, versus the Kansas Pa
chic railroad, has decided to adhere to
| the present system of adjusting limits
OF grants for railroads. The decision
Is OF great Importance, as it applies to
all railroad grants and grants of like
character.
WHITNEY AND THE NAVY.
Secretary Whitney to-day furnished
| a statement touching the method en-
ployed by the Navy Department to pro-
| cure plans for naval vessels and ma
chinery. Concerning the reported dis
charge of the Draughtsman Ferry at
the Chatham dock yard, England, he
| says there Is no truth in the statement
which connects the Navy Department
with anything clandestine in the way
| OF obtaining plans abroad or the secrets
or foreign governments. 1t is the
business OF every government to know
what implements of war are possessed
by the Others, together with their char
acter1stlcs, and the information can be
easily obtained if the necessary trouble
| Is taken, without reSoTting to question
able methods. Relative to the Ques-
ton Of the designs made by Chief
Constructor White, of the English Adj
miralty, Secretary Whitney says that
Mr.. White was not Chief Constructor
| OF the Admiralty when he made and
the Department purchased the designs,
but was in the employ of Sir William
Armstrong & Co. The Secretary
quotes from Secretary Chand-
ler's annual report for 1884,
| where he speaks in terms
Of high commentator of the firm. He
then proceeds as follows: After the
construction of the ESmeralda. they
built the Nanawhnkahn for the Japan
csc government, which was an improv-
ed ESmeralda. and on trial she was
reported to have made nearly nineteen
knots, the highest speed then reached
by any unarmed cruiser. / decided to
purchase the working drawings of this
ship and her machinery for the purpose
OF placing them at the disposal of our
naval architects to see by what method
they attained so much greater speed
over there than we were able to reach
here. finally closed the contract for
the plans of the two boats, the
Nanewahnkahn and what is known as
mo. 27'' for $35, 900 less than it would
have cost to make them with our men.
l think 1t was for the purpose of laying
before the people the very latest i'm
prOvementS in the way of a fast
| cruiser of the concern supposed to be
the best constructors in the world among
private ship builders of this class Of
boats. 1t then occurred to me that it
would be an excellent plan to reproduce
CAc AtSIll1c1y VI luCSo TWO VESSELS III
two of the five shops we are about to
build, and this course was earnestly
| urged upon me by the ship builders
who examined the plans. Many of
the arrangements of the ships shave
been changed conforming them to our
own type, but the machinery will be
duplicated in two of those that are
now under contract. The effect
has been in my judgment to
call the attention of
own people to the fact that We have
not kept up in the proper standard in
the way of producing powerful machin-
cry. The effectiveness of the machin-
cry in producing horse power is nearly
twice that required by the contract
upon the Boston and Atlanta. In these
latter cases, one ton of machinery is
guaranteed to produce little over five
horse power, and in the cases of cruis-
ers No. and 3, a ton is guaranteed to
produce nearly ten horse power. An
this it will be seen is stimulating to our
| own people, and i'll the end they will
probably succeed in doing as we'll or
better than these results show. The
| Secretary characterizes as ridiculous the
| idea that the Department advertised
soliciting the submission of designs
| that can be regarded as an attempt to
bride foreign naval officers.
CHOLERA IN SOUTH AMERICA.
The Secretary of State is informed
| that the cholera has spread through
parts of the CHILEAN Provinces of
Aconcagua and Valparaiso and is ex-
tending along the valley towards the
sea. AT station on the railroad be-
tween Santiago and Valparaiso thirty
three miles from the latter place, about
800 cases have so far been reported, of
| which about $50 have proved fatal.
Stringent sanitary measures have been
adopted by the authorities.
INDIAN AGENT SUSPENDED.
James /. David, agent of the Usage
Indians of the Indian Territory. has
been suspended by Inspector Barister
and Special Agent White has been
temporarily placed in charge of the
agency.
A CHANGE OF BASE.
d. Lynch Pringle, of South Carolina,
has been transferred from the position
of Consul-General and Secretary of
the Legation at Guatemala to that of
Consul-General at Constantinople.
NO FEAR OF A PANIC.
In a conversation with an Associated
| reporter as to the possibility of finan-
cial panic, resulting from the accumu-
| lation of surplus coin in the treasury,
after all the payable bonds are called,
Treasurer Jordan said he saw nothing
| in the present situation which was
at all likely to cause panic. There
is nothing in the situation to excite
| such fears. Should a panic occur,
however, Mr.. Jordan said, the govern
market and buy bonds in order
to relieve the financial strain. Al
though he could not, of course, speak
| for the Administration of which he
had ceased to be member, he had
no reason to suppose this resource
would not be applied, as it has been a
success On other occasions. The only
trouble apprehended was pressure for
small currency and this was being felt
even now, and in his opinion would last
until about the 10th of April. The
Government was meeting this demand
| as fast as possible. but could not supply
as fully as desired. About this season
of the year there was always demand
for small currency, and the treasury
as fast as called for. This
was owing to no want of
provision on the part of the Treasury
Department, but to the failure of the
Deficiency Bill, which appropriated
money for the issue of silver certifi
Gates. The Department had ample
facilities but not sufficient money for
alarm, however. 1t was simply the
spring demand for small currency and
there were about S47 600, 600 of the SIS
and SO gold coins in the New York
Sub-treasury alone, and about $780,
O00, 600 more small money available
with which to meet any such emerg-
ency. The Department would supply
silver certificates as fast as possible.
and any additional demand would
simply entail on the banks the differ
ence between the transportation of
| silver certificates and other SurTency.
There had been $50, 600 900 worth of
silver certificates supplied since the
: beginning of the fiscal year.
Captain KaA's Remains.
ST. LOUIS, March 1.-THE remains
of Captain J. B. Eads, who died at
Nassau. in the Bahami Islands, on
March sth, are expected to ar
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